He profusely quotes from ancient authors like Theocrats, Virgil, or Horace in support of his ideas and arguments. ... Aeschylus is his favorite author, whose tragedies he has transcribed a copy of with his own hand, which he carries around for more than thirty years. ... The devious ways of contemporary mankind are quite beyond his conception. ...
"Brave New World" written by the English author Aldous Huxley, born in 1894, is the portrait of an "ideal" world far in the future where society is made up of castes and babies originate from test-tubes, rather than from the womb of their mothers. ... Huxley, however, knew how to criticise his contemporary world, the world of 1932, and what he thought might follow, in his novel BNW. The British author wisely used the future in order to attack the present and to foresee negative future aspects deriving from the present. ...
There are three examples of text on this cover, the authors name, the title and a phrase "Not all journeys have an ending", which may suggest the overall theme of the novel. The author's name and the title "The Ivory Trail" are in the middle ground, off centre and at diagonals to each other. ... The fact that the title of novel comes second to, or underneath the author's name suggests perhaps the author's narcissism, feeling he is better than the book. ... The book cover appears to be set in a modern era but the pictures of the sphinx and pyramid imply that perhaps although cont...
It would be difficult to try and clarify the meaning of this book - the author's meaning - but the superficial nature of its story certainly puts it in a category of post-modernist writing. ... The gray area then becomes how to differentiate classical writing that contains elements of self-reflexivity from post-modernist contemporary writing which aims to respond to social agenda. ... The color, the pattern, and the soul of his piece comes from "a self-reflexivity prompted by the author's awareness of the theory underlying the construction of fictional works" (Waugh 2). ... The ch...
Anne Tyler Well-known contemporary novelist and short story writer, Anne Tyler, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1941 to Lloyd, an industrial chemist, and Phyllis Tyler, a social worker. ... In 1965, the couples first daughter, Tezh, was born, followed by Mitra in 1967, prompting the family to move to Baltimore, the place in which Tyler still resides, although now widowed, and where many of her novels and short stories are set, especially Baltimore's Roland Park-the "epitome of upper-middle class waspdom in all its glory" (DISCovering Authors). ... Perhaps one of Tyler's gre...
The theme of a story conveys the idea of the author, but it is not usually clearly stated in the novel. ... According to Sherry Lee Linkon, Animal Dreams has a main theme of the importance of women's relationships with each other and states how several other women authors with a contemporary writing style have dealt with connections and trials between women in their own works of fiction (3). ... The purpose of a theme is to reach across the pages of a book and illustrate a certain idea or concept that the author wishes for the reader to see. ...
Chapter 15 of Voltaire's 'Candide' can be taken as a perfect example of the author's skill as an 18th Century Enlightenment writer. ... Voltaire is an author who handles character dialogue expertly. ... From the examples in this essay, it can be seen how Voltaire, utilizes methods from centuries before him to effectively communicate his point to his contemporary readers and does so in a way that is amusing and captivating....
When I was deciding what kind of approach I should use for the novel of Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, I was reading the author's CV and I was surprised that she published her novel just as some of her other works under the pseudonym Currer Bell. ... Nevertheless her personality is standing out above the others, because she is not following contemporary convention, but she venerates equality of rights and gender instead of submission. ...
Ellen Hopkins is a contemporary novelist who has found a way to intrigue the minds of young adults using poetry in her numerous verse novels. ... With subjects that hit so hard for some, the author must be careful to not become too confident in their ability to express the emotions felt by the victim. ...
This is in sharp contrast to most contemporary novels which stuck to a Spartan diet of unreality and dullness, their only charm lying in the complete strangeness to anything human. ... Although we do not think too highly of the literary experience of the average 18th century reader, even he would remain sceptical after taking the author at his word. ...
